Deception Liabilities, Case Law and definitions Flashcards
Section 228(1)(a) Crimes Act 1961
Dishonestly taking or using a document
- Dishonestly
- Without claim of right
- Takes OR obtains
- Any document
- With intent to obtain any
- Property
- Service
- Pecuniary advantage
- Valuable consideration
Section 228(1)(a) Crimes Act 1961
Dishonestly taking or using a document
- Dishonestly
- Without claim of right
- Takes OR obtains
- Any document
- With intent to obtain any
- Property
- Service
- Pecuniary advantage
- Valuable consideration
Section 228(1)(b) Crimes Act 1961
Dishonestly taking OR using a document
- Dishonestly
- Without claim of right
- Uses OR attempts to use
- Any document
- With intent to obtain any
- Property
- Service
- Pecuniary advantage
- Valuable consideration
Section 240(1)(a) Crimes Act 1961
Obtaining OR causing loss by deception
- By any deception
- Without claim of right
- Obtains ownership OR possession of OR control over
- Any property
- Any privilege
- Service
- Pecuniary advantage
- Benefit
- Valuable consideration - Directly OR indirectly
Section 240(1)(b) Crimes Act 1961
Obtaining by deception OR causing loss by deception
- By any deception
- Without claim of right
- In incurring any debt OR liability
- Obtains credit
Section 240(1)(c) Crimes Act 1961
Obtaining OR cause loss by deception
- By any deception
- Without claim of right
- Induces OR causes any other person to
- deliver over
- Execute
- Make
- Accept
- Endorse
- Destroy OR alter - Any document OR thing capable of being used to derive a pecuniary advantage.
R V MISIC
Application: Document
“Essentially a document is a thing which provides evidence or information or serves as a record”
AP SIMESTER AND WJ BROOKBANKS
Application: Guilty knowledge
Knowing means “knowing or correctly believing”. The defendant may believe something wrongly, but cannot ‘know’ something that is false”
HAYES V R - Uses a document (attempts)
Application: Uses a document (attempts)
An unsuccessful use of a document is as much use as a successful one.
R V CARA
Application: Service
“Service is limited to financial or economic value, and excludes privileges or benefits”
HAYES V R - Pecuniary advantage
Application: Pecuniary advantage
A pecuniary advantage is “anything that enhances the accused’s financial position. It is that enhancement which constitutes the element of advantage”.
HAYES V R - Valuable consideration
A valuable consideration is “anything capable of being valuable consideration, whether of a monetary kind or of any other kind; in short, money or moneys worth.
R V MORELY - intent to deceive
Application: Intent to deceive - deception
Purposeful intent to deceive is necessary and must exist at the time of deception.
SIMESTER AND BROOKBANKS - Debt or liability
Application: Debt or liability
The debt or liability must be legally enforceable. This means that if the contract is void or illegal there will be no offence.
SIMESTER AND BROOKBANKS - deriving a pecuniary advantage
Application: Thing capable of being used to derive a pecuniary advantage
the ‘thing’ must be tangible and must be capable of being used to derive a pecuniary advantage
MORLEY V R - cause loss
Application: Cause loss
The loss alleged by the victim must have been induced by, or caused by, the deception. It doesn’t need to be the only factor
Dishonestly taking or using a document - Act and Section
Takes or obtains
Crimes Act 1961 - Section 228(1)(a)
Dishonestly taking or using a document - ingredients
Takes or obtains
Crimes act 1961 - section 228(1)(a)
- Dishonestly
- Without claim of right
- Takes or obtains
- Any document
- With intent to obtain any:
- Property/service/pecuniary advantage/valuable consideration
Dishonestly taking or using a document - act and section
Uses or attempts to use
Crimes act 1961 - section 228(1)(b)
Dishonestly taking or using a document - ingredients
Uses or attempts to use
Crimes act 1961 - section 228(1)(b)
- Dishonestly
- Without claim of right
- Uses or attempts to use
- Any document
- With intent to obtain any: property/service/pecuniary advantage/valuable consideration
Obtaining by deception or causing loss by deception (obtaining property) - act and section
Crimes act 1961 - section 240(1)(a)
Obtaining by deception or causing loss by deception (obtains ownership etc) - ingredients
Crimes act 1961 - section 240(1)(a)
- By deception
- Without claim of right
- Obtains ownership OR possession of OR control over:
- any property/privilege/service/
pecuniary advantage
/benefit/valuable consideration - Directly or indirectly
Obtaining by deception or causing loss by deception (obtains credit) - act and section
Crimes act 1961 - section 240(1)(b)